Top Catholic newspaper names gay couple 'Persons of the year'
A gay couple has been named 'Persons of the year' by a top US Catholic newspaper.
The National Catholic Reporter (NCR) yesterday said Greg Bourke and Michael DeLeon, both practicing Catholics, "tell the story of the benefits of same-sex marriage". The couple, who have been in a relationship for more than 30 years, married in Canada in 2004 and have two children, were plaintiffs in the case which eventually resulted in the legalisation of same-sex marriage in the US earlier this year.
"Bourke and DeLeon are emblematic of this major challenge facing the church today, because they force us to ask not how will we live out a hypothetical situation, but how will we live with Greg and Michael. They give flesh to an abstraction," an NCR editorial, published yesterday, said....